🎄⛄Dig(gles) the hall with boughs of holly! (she/her)🎁❄️
@diggles.bsky.social
Teacher, gamer, learner, crafter. Politically progressive Gen Xer & Green Party member💚. Lifelong nerd (Doctor Who, Star Trek etc) Hypermobile spoonie with Fibro & other stuff. #CovidIsAirborne (although I wish it wasn't) N95 masks all the way!
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I just went for a lovely birding walk in local Nature Reserve 2 and got inspired: with the help of the Merlin bird ID app I'm going to record all the birds I see/hear between 24/12/24 and 25/12/25. It'll be under the hashtag #2425YearOfBirding. Anyone want to join me?
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Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to a disturbing new level. Yesterday, federal immigration agents pulled over her son and demanded proof of his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
www.cbsnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to a disturbing new level. Yesterday, federal immigration agents pulled over her son and demanded proof of his citizenship.
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obligatory map, I suppose he could fall under “sexy” but I feel he deserves a new category involving accents
December 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
obligatory map, I suppose he could fall under “sexy” but I feel he deserves a new category involving accents
Yays! Work is done. I've now just got 5 more hours of teaching before I break up for Christmas 👍 I'm now relaxing for the rest of today.
December 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Yays! Work is done. I've now just got 5 more hours of teaching before I break up for Christmas 👍 I'm now relaxing for the rest of today.
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I wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.”
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
a single line of Shakespeare contains an ethical universe
on what we get from individual word choice, what good writing is, plus: what I put in my ChatGPT settings to make it helpful
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.”
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
Happy Sunday folks! It's soooo grey and windy here but I've got nowhere to be and just 2 hours of work (11-12 & 1-2). I definitely feel I'm in the Christmas wind-down now. I've finally managed to square my accounts this morning too- it's been a faff this month! So huzzah!
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Happy Sunday folks! It's soooo grey and windy here but I've got nowhere to be and just 2 hours of work (11-12 & 1-2). I definitely feel I'm in the Christmas wind-down now. I've finally managed to square my accounts this morning too- it's been a faff this month! So huzzah!
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Whilst I’m doing my new videos. What would you like to see on my YouTube channel?
Would love feedback etc
Would love feedback etc
December 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Whilst I’m doing my new videos. What would you like to see on my YouTube channel?
Would love feedback etc
Would love feedback etc
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Life is about finding balance.
For every hour you spend shambling through the old forest spreading fear & wonder, spend an equal amount of time spreading fear & wonder while shambling through the old forest.
It's that simple.
For every hour you spend shambling through the old forest spreading fear & wonder, spend an equal amount of time spreading fear & wonder while shambling through the old forest.
It's that simple.
December 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Life is about finding balance.
For every hour you spend shambling through the old forest spreading fear & wonder, spend an equal amount of time spreading fear & wonder while shambling through the old forest.
It's that simple.
For every hour you spend shambling through the old forest spreading fear & wonder, spend an equal amount of time spreading fear & wonder while shambling through the old forest.
It's that simple.
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I absolutely refuse to believe that the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.
December 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I absolutely refuse to believe that the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.
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Another #Caturday and Percy is upstairs keeping warm under the bed and next to the radiator.
So here is a photo of him from early in the week when I had a sick headache and he was making sure I was OK.
#Catsofbluesky
So here is a photo of him from early in the week when I had a sick headache and he was making sure I was OK.
#Catsofbluesky
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Another #Caturday and Percy is upstairs keeping warm under the bed and next to the radiator.
So here is a photo of him from early in the week when I had a sick headache and he was making sure I was OK.
#Catsofbluesky
So here is a photo of him from early in the week when I had a sick headache and he was making sure I was OK.
#Catsofbluesky
Just made myself a fresh batch of banana, oats & egg pancakes. Currently scoffing two with lashings of plain yoghurt. Om nom nom 😋
December 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Just made myself a fresh batch of banana, oats & egg pancakes. Currently scoffing two with lashings of plain yoghurt. Om nom nom 😋
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This is the most important thing you will read today
Silicon Valley’s Authoritarian Tech Right is not theorizing this world. They are already building it. The pipelines are operational. The feedback loops are functioning. The sovereignty transfers are completing.
A MUST READ 👇
A MUST READ 👇
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This is the most important thing you will read today
Happy Saturday folks! I had a solid morning of work so I've only just logged on here - my day is shorter than planned though due to student illness - I've just got 1 hour now and then I finish for the day. See you later!
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy Saturday folks! I had a solid morning of work so I've only just logged on here - my day is shorter than planned though due to student illness - I've just got 1 hour now and then I finish for the day. See you later!
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Sass machine! Photo from my collection, no date/info.
December 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Sass machine! Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Yays! Work is done! I've just had dinner and I'm settling in for a nice quiet evening. I'm so glad I'm now in my final week of work before the Christmas break 👍
December 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yays! Work is done! I've just had dinner and I'm settling in for a nice quiet evening. I'm so glad I'm now in my final week of work before the Christmas break 👍
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THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.
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At the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social getting very excited about future sample return missions, including JAXA's MMX - launch next year, bringing back bits of Mars' moon Phobos. The hope is we'll get Martian samples sitting on the surface of the moon too. www.mmx.jaxa.jp/en/
MMX - Martian Moons eXploration
MMX - Martian Moons eXploration mission will travel to Mars and survey the red planet’s two moons; Phobos and Deimos.
www.mmx.jaxa.jp
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
At the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social getting very excited about future sample return missions, including JAXA's MMX - launch next year, bringing back bits of Mars' moon Phobos. The hope is we'll get Martian samples sitting on the surface of the moon too. www.mmx.jaxa.jp/en/
Happy Friday folks! Annoyingly I had a 2/5 score on Visible today☹️ My tummy's unhappy and I can feel my spoons are low despite my lovely rest day yesterday. I've done a few light bits of adulting this morning but now it's back to the sofa! I'm guessing it's weather + end-of-term-itis causing it.
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Happy Friday folks! Annoyingly I had a 2/5 score on Visible today☹️ My tummy's unhappy and I can feel my spoons are low despite my lovely rest day yesterday. I've done a few light bits of adulting this morning but now it's back to the sofa! I'm guessing it's weather + end-of-term-itis causing it.
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Now I’ve got a new boiler … I’ve got to pay for it… I’ve worked out that I need to sell:
23 cat sofas or
80 foot stools or
199 lap mats
You know what to do.. craftysharp.etsy.com
23 cat sofas or
80 foot stools or
199 lap mats
You know what to do.. craftysharp.etsy.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Now I’ve got a new boiler … I’ve got to pay for it… I’ve worked out that I need to sell:
23 cat sofas or
80 foot stools or
199 lap mats
You know what to do.. craftysharp.etsy.com
23 cat sofas or
80 foot stools or
199 lap mats
You know what to do.. craftysharp.etsy.com
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Painting by Joan Miró, 1953
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137857
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137857
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Painting by Joan Miró, 1953
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137857
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137857
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This seems suspicious
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This seems suspicious
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On the one hand, I know the metric that Time chooses this on is not the metric we all think it is.
On the other I hope these people never know a picosecond of happiness for the rest of their fucking lives because of the abject destruction and chaos their boneheaded decisions have wrought
On the other I hope these people never know a picosecond of happiness for the rest of their fucking lives because of the abject destruction and chaos their boneheaded decisions have wrought
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On the one hand, I know the metric that Time chooses this on is not the metric we all think it is.
On the other I hope these people never know a picosecond of happiness for the rest of their fucking lives because of the abject destruction and chaos their boneheaded decisions have wrought
On the other I hope these people never know a picosecond of happiness for the rest of their fucking lives because of the abject destruction and chaos their boneheaded decisions have wrought
Our recycling got emptied out OK late this morning, and none of our neighbours' bins had toppled over in the high winds night, so no rubbish-pocalypse. It's a pre-Christmas miracle! @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social 😄
a cute cartoon cat is sitting on a pink background with the word yay written on it .
Alt: a cute cartoon cat is sitting on a pink background with the word yay written on it .
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Our recycling got emptied out OK late this morning, and none of our neighbours' bins had toppled over in the high winds night, so no rubbish-pocalypse. It's a pre-Christmas miracle! @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social 😄
Happy Thursday folks! Day off for me today so it's a proper rest day for me - I'm spending the day gaming, watching You Tube and doing a bit of crafting. Now work is finally winding down I feel I can *breathe* a bit which is lovely.
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Happy Thursday folks! Day off for me today so it's a proper rest day for me - I'm spending the day gaming, watching You Tube and doing a bit of crafting. Now work is finally winding down I feel I can *breathe* a bit which is lovely.
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The Magic Faraway Tree trailer is here and my initial concerns about casting and the contemporary setting have been blasted out of the water.
Rory's reaction was, *Wow! Just wow!" 😀
youtu.be/_UFhePH68Ac?...
Rory's reaction was, *Wow! Just wow!" 😀
youtu.be/_UFhePH68Ac?...
The Magic Faraway Tree | Official Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by Entertainment Film Distributors
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Magic Faraway Tree trailer is here and my initial concerns about casting and the contemporary setting have been blasted out of the water.
Rory's reaction was, *Wow! Just wow!" 😀
youtu.be/_UFhePH68Ac?...
Rory's reaction was, *Wow! Just wow!" 😀
youtu.be/_UFhePH68Ac?...
Work's done and that's it until Friday afternoon. Sounds like the wind's up again outside so hopefully all our neighbourhood recycling bins will stay upright tonight - tomorrow early morning is when they're collected and we may all wake up to Rubbishgeddon out there 😬
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Work's done and that's it until Friday afternoon. Sounds like the wind's up again outside so hopefully all our neighbourhood recycling bins will stay upright tonight - tomorrow early morning is when they're collected and we may all wake up to Rubbishgeddon out there 😬